Hey Vancouver: Don't have $1 million for a home? Hire realtor Rick Mercer

Attention Vancouverites: Don't have $1 million to afford a home? Or $2 million to buy an East Van home damaged by fire? Or even $2.4 million to afford a tear-down mansion?

Well, guess what? You don't need it.

All you need to do is contact Can-Do Realty's superhuman realtor Rick Mercer.

Even within Vancouver's overheated real-estate market—which tops the world in the luxury real-estate market—he can find you something that will give new meaning to laneway housing. And that's no laughing matter.

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The Georgia Straight: A 50th Anniversary Celebration Book

This beautifully produced coffee-table book brings together over 100 of Georgia Straight's iconic covers, along with short essays, insider details and contributor reflections, putting each of these issues of the publication into its historical context.